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Updates on: Kent State University, RCET, eInstruction, No Child Left Behind, Oracle Education Foundation, Starpoint, virtual fieldtrips

Kent State University’s “Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology” provides a multimedia forum for the advancement of scholarly work on the effects of technology on teaching and learning. RCET is planning a special issue on Learning while Mobile for Spring 2008. The abstract deadline is Dec. 7. — Handheld Learning

eInstruction, the pioneer of applying student response technologies in the classroom so instructors can adapt to students’ needs in real-time and help them learn, today announced that Educational Underwriters (EdU) has awarded eInstruction’s Classroom Performance System (CPS) the Gold Standard for effectively meeting the current requirements of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). — Market Wire

The Oracle Education Foundation (OEF) has launched its first 21st Century Learning Institute to help educators worldwide successfully integrate project learning and 21st Century learning skills into the classroom. — CNN

New York — Within the next two months, Starpoint teachers will be able to take their students on faraway trips without leaving their Mapleton Road campus. That’s because the district has tapped into a new program, called “Virtual Field Trip & Distance Learning Sites,” through the Orleans-Niagara Board of Cooperative Educational Services — Buffalo News